When Deadness Breaks in: Surviving, “Bemg-With” and a Moment of “At-One-Ment” in Analytic Work Within Deadness and Emptiness*, **

Training and supervising analyst and senior faculty member at The Israel Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, a fellow at the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA), Honorary Member at The New Center for Psychoanalysis (NCP) in Los Angeles, and former Vice-President of The International Winnicott Association (IWA). Eshel is the founder and head of the post-graduate track “Independent Psychoanalysis: Radical Breakthroughs” in the Program of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine, at Tel Aviv University. Her papers have been published in psychoanalytic journals and book chapters, translated into eight languages, and presented at national and international conferences. She's been honored as the Lecturer of the Psychoanalytic Center of California's 8th Annual Wilfred Bion Conference (Los Angeles, 2018), and the 2021 Robert Stoller Lecture speaker (NCP, Los Angeles), and has been awarded the 2013 Frances Tustin International Memorial Prize, the 2017 Symonds Prize, and the 2022 Leonard J. Comess Award among others. In 2012 she was featured in Globes (Israel's financial newspaper and magazine) as sixteenth of the fifty most influential women in Israel. Eshel has co-edited Was It or Was It Not? When Shadows of Sexual Abuse Emerge in Psychoanalytic Treatment (2017), and authored The Emergence of Analytic Oneness: Into the Heart of Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2019), with a Chinese translation in 2023. She is in private practice in Tel Aviv